The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-06-24


remain in its natural unkempt beauty
The part that had been renovated
presented such perfect and beauti-
full fence, in contrast beside its wild
companion piece, that the company
was taken by storm as it were. The
hedge was four and half feet high,
strong and close enough from bottom
to top to turn horses, cattle, hogs
and chickens,
In setting out plants for fence
under the Company's system the
plants are set in the ground at an
angle of 450, and when the stocks
are grown large enough to plash and
wire-in A years, they are bent to
the same angle, forming straight line
with the root, but old hedges are
grown upright, and require to be
trimmed and bent to the required
angle. The wires are then stretched
two barbed at the bottom and two
smooth at top--and each wire is fas-
tened to the hedge stock by staple
driven by machine that works au-
tomatically, so that each stock has
four staples driven into it, holding
wire and hedge stock firmly together.
The hedge plants should be set 8
inches apart and you can figure out
the number Of thousand staples re-
quired to fasten a mile of fence. This
old fence was about 10 inches in
thickness or width and plum and
straight on the sides as wall. An
other hedge that was afterward Wis.,
tied, was of younger growth, and
was far handsomer, being narrower,
but equally strong and close. Be-
fore the Usage orange stocks are
ready for bending into position after
being trimmed, the lateral or side
roots are all cut off and only the tap
root and those contained in the mar
row strip of ground on which the
hedge stands are allowed to remain.
These side roots are prevented from
spreading by subsequent pruning Of
the hedge, which by dwarfng the tops
dwarfs the roots, SO say the hedge
company. We incline, however, to
think the side roots will spread to a
considerable extent if not frequently
cut off in subsequent years.
The Company has 20 acres in
young plants, planted the latter part
of of May which are making a fine
growth. They estimate that there
will be enough plants in this nursery
to set 400 miles of hedge, and they
anticipate orders for hedges, enough
to use all of these plants in this fall
and next springs setting. The best
Usage orage seed are grown in Texas.
where the Company procure most of
their seed. 1t requires p bushels
of seed to plant an acre. The seed
are drilled in rows like planting gar
den vegetables. The following is the
contract which the Company make
with parties desiring to have hedge
grown:
"When our services are wanted to
build a Hedge fence, we enter into a
contract which is mutual in its agree
ments. The farmer agrees to prepare
the ground for the reception of the
plants, and after it is planted, to Guilt
vate and protect it; to board our men
and teams, and pay us twenty-five
cents per rod when the plants are set
out; twenty-five cents per rod one
year after setting; twenty-five cents
per rod two years after setting and fif-
ty cents per rod when the Hedge is
FLASHED and completed. Making a to-
tai of rs per rod for the completed
fence.
We provide all the plants and tools
necessary to the business, furnish men
and teams and pay the expenses of the
same, plant the Hedge, replant it the
following spring where any plants
may haYe failed to grow from any
cause.
The third spring we side trim the
Hedge. if we deem it necessary, so as
to throw the growth into the main
stalk, and carry plants with us to re-
plant again if necessary. AS soon as
the Hedge has attained sufficient
growth 1.-THE bodies of the plants should
average one inch or more in diameter
we plash it; cutting off all the side
branches. removing the earth from
the roots, and bending the plants over
in the root to an angle of about forty
five degrees, and securing them in this
position by stretching two barb and
two smooth wires along the Hedge
and firmly stapling each plant to them
making combined wire and Hedge
fence"
The guests were driven through the
beautiful cemetery and out to the fair